Ya know this is actually a super good point people don't make enough, even in context of other things. Like there's this huge problem in some professional sports where success has been completely decoupled from team profitability, so owners don't even bother spending money to try to win.
This decoupling has actually happened with a ton of stuff in society, and games/streaming media are often a pretty good example. Studios like Disney can afford to keep putting out mediocre filler garbage because quality is frankly just not that important! people stay subbed anyway.